From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 24 18:51:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from citusc17.usc.edu (citusc17.usc.edu [128.125.38.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E3F937B401 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:51:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc17.usc.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0P2sct45748; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:54:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:54:38 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Dave Hayes Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM Message-ID: <20010124185438.K45221@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <200101250053.QAA29043@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="sdEQJo40s7ofW8iR" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101250053.QAA29043@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org>; from dave@jetcafe.org on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:53:39PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --sdEQJo40s7ofW8iR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:53:39PM -0800, Dave Hayes wrote: > I was asked recently if it was possible to run a FreeBSD server > entirely off of CDROM. Now I know that things like /var need to be > writable, and that the initial question as worded was rather naive. > However, modulo writable filesystems which can be mounted separately, > has anyone ever done something like this? Yes. In fact I think the BSDi CD sets even come with a bootable live filesystem CD which is exactly this (not sure if it takes care of writability issues). If not the release CD sets, then the Toolkit..I've seen it somewhere. Kris --=20 NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not expired, finger kris@FreeBSD.org --sdEQJo40s7ofW8iR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6b5VuWry0BWjoQKURAiFEAJ95sLO/DtkVPSV35HGZCcCx2+4idgCgpCmd I+JAVvfiLpQpCTPZ5Thf4+g= =j7ti -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sdEQJo40s7ofW8iR-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message